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Subject: Re: Why not give git a try? (was "Re: [head tinderbox] failure on
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On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 02:22:34 -0800, perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote:
>Diane Bruce <db@db.net> wrote:
>> There certainly would not be a chance of putting mercurial or git
>> into base for example.
>
> Completely apart from licensing, another strike against mercurial is
> that it is written in Python, so it couldn't go into base unless
> Python also went into base.

This argument is actually a bit weak for most of the VCS'es out there
(including svn by the way).

We don't really *need* to import the full VCS itself into FreeBSD.  For
instance, Subversion is also not part of the base system.  It works fine
as a port that people can install.

There's really _nothing_ wrong with a VCS that is a port/package.  We
used to have CVS into the base system as "the official VCS", but this is
no longer the case for the subversion repo of src/.  IMO this hasn't
really caused any major problem with the people who want to check out
and patch the source tree.